Thank you, unknown genius!

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 16:52:52 -0500,
  Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> >
> >Bruno is noting that the current methods of exploitation tend to be web
> >pages, flash, java, media files and a firewall isn't going to be of much
> >help with this type of intrusion but selinux clearly could be a layer of
> >use here.
> 
> Does it actually prevent browser plugins from doing things that the 
> running user can't do in the default configuration?

Yes.

> >Yes, disabling SELinux is certainly always possible, and in fact quite
> >easy to do but that doesn't mean that it's the best choice possible.
> 
> On the other hand, if you have a limited amount of time it might be 
> better spent getting the simple layers right than on learning a complex 
> add-on layer that is still new enough that you can expect bugs.

I don't like having to trust Firefox (that's without plugins). That code
virtually has to have some bugs that will allow running arbitrary code
as the user. I think people are crazy to us propietary plugins. As events
have shown, not only to corpoartions make mistakes with their code they
also intentionally make it doing stuff hostile to the user. Having SELinux
be able to help with this stuff would be very nice.